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How will India be in 2030 - a new book charts the course
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 25 (ANI): India wants to be the third-largest economy in the world by the end of this decade, raise Gross Enrolment Ratio in higher education to 50 per cent, end extreme poverty and produce 450 GW of renewable energy. The Narendra Modi government has undertaken
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Indian economy to contract 9.6 pc in FY21 due to Covid-19: World Bank
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Oct 8 (ANI): India's economy, the largest in south Asia, is expected to contract by 9.6 per cent in the current fiscal year (2020-21) because of Covid-19 pandemic, the World Bank said on Thursday.
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COVID-19 pandemic to push 150 million people into extreme poverty by 2021:
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 150 million people may fall into extreme poverty throughout the world by 2021 as a result of the economic contraction caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank said in a report on Wednesday.
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Thankyou invites P&G and Unilever to partner with them to help end extreme
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] September 30 (ANI/NewsVoir): Today, Australia-based social enterprise Thankyou announced an invitation to P&G and Unilever - two of the world's largest and most influential consumer goods companies - to make and distribute Thankyou products globally to help end extre
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Kerala: Welfare committee to hear case of women who surrendered children d
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Dec 12 (ANI): The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) will hold a hearing on December 18 in the case pertaining to a woman, who had handed over her six children to a government-run care home due to extreme poverty and abuses from an alcoholic husband.
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Kerala: Stricken by extreme poverty, woman hands over her 6 children to Ch
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Dec 3 (ANI): Struck by extreme poverty, a woman here has handed over her six children to the Kerala State Council for Child Welfare (KSCCW).
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ADB, Alibaba establish strategic partnership for rural vitalisation in Chi
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Nov 21 (ANI): Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Alibaba Group have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in support of rural vitalisation in China by promoting development of internet-plus economy to help modernise the agriculture sector with the aim of helping el
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Poverty compels locals in this MP village to mortgage their children
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Shivpuri (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Aug 9 (ANI): Extreme poverty has compelled poor families living in Mudheni village of Shivpuri district to mortgage their children to shepherds in order to have a steady source of income.
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Bill and Melinda Gates co-host Goalkeepers 2018 in New York City
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [USA], Sep 27 (NewsVoir): United States: Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, co-hosted the second annual Goalkeepers events on September 25 and 26 to highlight the remarkable progress toward the reduction of extreme poverty, and the need to acce
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Bill and Melinda Gates to host second annual Goalkeepers Event
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Seattle (United States), Aug 22 (NewsVoir): Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will gather emerging and established leaders in government and business, as well as activists and performers, at Goalkeepers 2018 in New York City, September 25-26. In its se
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Chhattisgarh school cook's son secures 90% in JEE
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Jashpur, (Chhattisgarh) [India] June 9 (ANI): Despite being born into extreme poverty, a student from Chhattisgarh's Jashpur district came out with flying colours, scoring 90 percent in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Mains.
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Bangladesh can end extreme poverty by 2030: World Bank
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Oct. 3 (ANI): Asserting that Bangladesh has done an impressive job in reducing poverty over the last decade, the World Bank in its report on Monday said the country has the potential to end extreme poverty by 2030 if firm steps are taken to make growth more inclusive to b
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